MEDEA and corinth and colchis?

Question

what are the 2 opposing views that these two societies represent in "MEDEA?" -Corinth and Colchis.....homework help! Thanks everyone (in advance) =0)

Answer 1

Here's a pretty good exert from a Margaret Atwood essay.

"Jason is beloved, true, but later: this Medea is no helpless slave of sexual passion. At first Jason is largely the means to an end -- Medea's escape from blood-smeared Colchis in search of a higher and more humane civilization. Jason's betrayal of her is also Corinth's betrayal of her idealistic quest, and her contempt for his behavior is the contempt of the disillusioned nineteenth-century colonial arriving in Paris or London to find that the imperial promises of a nobler life ring hollow."

There are more paragraphs about how Colchis is the barbarian civilization and Corinth is the true civilization but at the heart of both is deceit and despair.  

Take a look........Good Luck!